| Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism Contributor(s): Ong, Aihwa (Editor), Nonini, Donald (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415915430 ISBN-13: 9780415915434 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1996 Annotation: This book examines Chinese transnationalism as a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Interweaving anthropology, cultural studies, and interpretive political economy, essays in this book are based on new ethnographic research, in a range of sites, that examine the connections of human agency, cultural politics, and indeed pathos. Critiquing the view that these changes are the product of the ways that late capitalism and its concomitants--flexibility, travel, sub-contracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--are reworking the identities of an ethnic population in different global situations. Contributors: Cristina Szanton Blanc, Prasenjit Duara, Takeshi Hamashita, You-tien Hsing, Ching Kwan Lee, Xin Liu, Katharyne Mitchell, Donal Nonini, Aihwa Ong, Carl Trocki, Wong Siu Lun, and Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 909.049 |
| LCCN: 96-30223 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.08" W x 9.02" (1.02 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on "overseas Chinese" and their unique location in the global arena. |